Not pictures in the My Pet Goat sense of illustrations. There are photographs in the middle, of young Rove and old Rove with 43. This reduces the overall reading load by about 20 pages.
The question is not whether you are reading. The question we must ask is, "Is our children reading?"
Depends on the size of your shelf. It is about 4 inches thick, so pretty good if you're going for a wall-to-wall library effect.
Just for my--and many others'--edification, could you please detail any one significant fact that GW Bush knew, pre-war, that he then contradicted or denied as fact to the public and used as a justification for war?
Please don't say WMDs, because the intelligence arms of several countries--as well as many democrats and republicans (Kerry, Clinton, etc)--were equally convinced about Saddam's weapons programs, as we all recall. If Bush was lying about WMDs, then so were all these entities, Many confuse "lies" with mistakes of fact. I know of nothing Bush said regarding his reasons for war that he KNEW to be false. Do you?
Well, I did a piece on this in October, 2002. It ran on a1 and was titled, "For Bush, the Facts are Malleable." My favorite was his claim that Iraq had drones capable of attacking the United States. Ari Fleischer said they could be put on boats and then launched from the boats (by the Iraqi navy, I guess) to attack us once they were within range. I had no access to intelligence back then (come to think of it, I have never had access to any sort of intelligence, as readers can attest), but it was pretty obvious that was nonsense even then.
Yep. In retrospect, a glaring mistake. The problem is those guys were just too doggone nice.
On the interview, ML asked Rove if he was the source of the 2000 South Carolina push poll whisper campaign, that McCain had a "black baby."
Rove denied this, and actually implied that it could have been Bush, and blamed McCain for not using it as a teaching moment for his adoption of a girl from Bangladesh!
Back in the fall of 2001, I googled this push poll, and got an AP wire report that Rove was actually bragging about derailing McCain's campaign with the push poll. Rove has been pulling dirty tricks since Nixon's time. What are your recollections/research turned up about who sank McCain, and is Rove really trying to implicate GWB?
While I'm no GWB fan, I don't think he's as evil or mean spirited as what I've read about Rove.
Yes, that's the same way he recounts it in the book. Rove does have a legitimate beef in that everybody always blames him first whenever there's something resembling a dirty trick. He says he was responsible for some push polling, but he says the questions were routine (ie, nothing about the illegitimate child). I don't think anybody has ever proved the Bush campaign to be behind the worst of the allegations in South Carolina. The problem was they weren't distancing themselves from the filth.
Have you had a chance to speak with the Dean since he criticized your piece? I'm interested to know how internal discussions go -- most op-ed criticisms are passive aggressive at best. To an outsider, I was really surprised to see an explicit, by-name criticism by David Broder, of all people. What was your take?
Talk about dirty tricks! That Broder fellow is brutal.
At least he called me his "friend" the way they do in the Senate before eviscerating each other.
I have not bumped into my attacker yet, but I am showing photos of him to my puppy in hopes that she will grow into a ferocious attack dog.
Yes, at great length. If you still don't want to part with that $30, I'll summarize:
-- Matt Cooper lied.
-- Chris Matthews lied.
-- Bob Novak misled him.
-- Patrick Fitzgerald had a quixotic obsession.
-- Rove committed no crime and merely had a memory lapse.
Yes, very proud of my native land these days: Rangel, Paterson, Massa. I believe it is the curse of Spitzer. Either that or they were jealous of Jersey getting all the attention.
I note that, like Sarah Palin, Rove's book signing tour is hitting Republican communities and avoiding large cities where he would sell more books but he would possibly be exposed to more (shudder) "non-Republicans."
How do you read his book tour schedule?
Well, I think Sarah Palin arranged her schedule so that she could pop over to Canada regularly for her medical care. Rove uses American medical care so has more flexibility.
Worse. He's sunk so low that now he's a . . . columnist!
Not so! Michelle Bachmann was celebrating Bush at CPAC. Would be very unusual for Rove to return to presidential politics in anything other than an informal advisor capacity.
How sad. I have always wanted to be Froomkin, or at least have his hair.
Actually I think you may be conflating two things: the weekday "Sketch" columns and the Sunday op-ed columns. The latter tend to be less mirthful and more edgy. But not partisan: Harry Reid, David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs will attest.
The Love Story theory of politics.
Rove definitely hates Tom Davis, and it appears to be mutual. But he's not about settling scores with Republicans in the book. Even mentions he took off his Teddy Roosevelt cufflinks once and gave them to a grateful John McCain. Of course, thanks to Glenn Beck, we now know TR was a communist, so obviously KR didn't want those cufflinks anyway.
Nope. Scandal is one area that is perfectly bipartisan. The decision to fess up seems to have nothing to do with party and everything to do with crisis management advice.
I have no answer to this question but am delighted to have Jeff Gannon make a cameo in this chat.
It's going to be called Turd Blossom. All the characters are microorganisms living in a cow pie.
I stand corrected.
Did you catch last Tuesday's new epi of "The Good Wife," in which Alan Cumming portrays Chris Noth's new foul-mouthed campaign genius Eli Gold, whose background includes being a trained concert pianist (rather than ballet dancer!)?
I'm hoping this Rahm Emanuel doppelganger becomes a regular -- or at least recurring -- character on the series.
Have not seen but am passing this on as another public service. I really think this is my year to win the Pulitzer for Public Service.
I am trying to think of the last time I actually sat down for an interview with a politician. Usually it's on the hoof as I chase somebody with questions when they leave the chamber after voting. I did wind up sitting next to Senator Boxer on a flight to California a couple of years ago, so I guess that would be my last "sit-down."
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Keep drinking the Purell......
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Thanks for chatting everybody.
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